Twenty-nine Modern Fiction Works

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Nov 1, 2021 - Nov 10, 2021

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An intimate sale featuring a single-owner collection of mostly modern first edition books, many signed, including literature, fiction, and nonfiction works. This auction has something for everyone! Bonhams Skinner bidsquare@bonhamsskinner.com

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  Twenty-nine Modern Fiction Works, Johnson, Adam, The Orphan Master's Son. Random House, 2012, advanced signed first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Johnson, Adam, The Orphan Master's Son. Random House, 2012, first edition signed hardcover, with inscription, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Johnson, Chalmers, Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope. Metropolitan Books, 2010, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Joyce, James, Edited by Thomas E Connolly, James Joyce's Scribbledehobble: the Ur-Workbook for Finnegan's Wake. Northwestern University Press, 1961, first edition hardcover, inscribed by author, (condition: near fine, dust jacket condition: near fine); Kafka, Franz, Translated by Willa & Edwin Muir, The Trial. The Limited EditionÆs Club, 1975, limited edition hard back with slip case, (condition: fine, no dust jacket); Kaplan, Robert D., In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars & a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania & Beyond. Random House, 2012, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: fine); Kaplan, Robert D., Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power. Random House, 2010, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Kapuscinski, Ryszard, Translated by William R. Brand & Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand, The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat. Quartet Books, 1978, first published U.K. hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: near fine); Kapuscinski, Ryszard, Translated by Klara Glowczewska, The Shadow of the Sun. Alfred A. Knopf, 2001, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Kapuscinski, Ryszard, Translated by Klara Glowczewska, Travels with Herodotus. Alfred A. Knopf, 2007, first edition, first printing hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Kedourie, Elie, In the Anglo-Arab labyrinth: The McMahon-Husayn Correspondence & its interpretations, 1914-1939. Cambridge University Press, 1976, first published hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Keilson, Hans, Translated by Damion Searls, Comedy in a Minor Key. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2010, first edition, first printing hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Keilson, Hans, Translated by Ivo Jarosy, The Death of the Adversary. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2010, softcover, (condition: very good, no dust jacket); Kelly, Amy, Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings. Harvard University Press, 1978, first edition, first printing hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Kennan, George F., American Diplomacy, 1900-1950.University of Chicago Press, 1969, collectorÆs edition hardcover and slipcase, (condition: fine, no dust jacket); Kenneally, Christine, The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language. Viking, 2007, first edition, first published hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Khayyßm, Omar, Translated by Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubßiyßt: Five Authorized Versions. Walter J. Black, NY Classics Club, 1942, hardcover, (condition: very good, no dust jacket); Kingsolver, Barbara, The Lacuna. Harper Collins, 2009, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: near fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Kipling, Rudyard, Illustrated by Richard Powers, The Man Who Would be King and Other Stories. Easton Press, 1992, collectorÆs leatherbound edition, (condition: as new, no dust jacket); Kipling, Rudyard, Illustrated by A.S. Hartwick, Soldier Tales. MacMillan, 1896, hardcover binding by Bayntun, (condition: fine, no dust jacket); Koestler, Arthur, Translated by Daphne Hardy, Illustrated by George Roth, Darkness at Noon. The Franklin Library, 1979, limited edition signed leatherbound hardcover, (condition: as new, no dust jacket); Koestler, Arthur, Translated by Edith Simon, The Gladiators. MacMillan, 1939, hardcover, (condition: good, dust jacket condition: good); Koestler, Arthur, Scum of the Earth. MacMillan, 1941, first U.S. printing, (condition: very good, no dust jacket); Kosinski, Jerzy, Steps. Random House, 1968, first printing hardcover, notes in ink throughout by the reviewer G. Wolff, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: fine); Kundera, Milan, Translated by Michael Henry Heim, The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Harper & Row, 1984, first edition, first printing hardcover, signed by author, screen writer, actor, and film director, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Kureishi, Hanif, The Buddha of Surburbia. Viking, 1990, unrevised, unpublished, signed proof, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Kushner, Rachel, The Flame Throwers. Scribner, 2013, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Kushner, Rachel, Telex from Cuba. Scribner, 2008, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); David Hayman (Editor), A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake. University of Texas Press Austin, 1963, signed hardcover.

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